About the author
Ben Pearse was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, and was educated in Bovey Tracey, and at Ashburton College in Newton Abbot, Devon, UK.
Later, after his family had emigrated to New Zealand, he studied at King Edward Technical College, in Dunedin, NZ.
- Some previous photographic jobs - Evening Star, Dunedin - Otago Daily Times, Dunedin - Christopher Bede Photography, Dunedin - Free Lance - post cards, NZ Woman’s Weekly - Studio and Shop - portraits, commercial, aerial etc - Dunedin and NZ scenes etc - animals and the unusual Photography is my main hobby now, always looking for something different or unusual that catches my eye! Whether it’s animals, large and small, landscapes or people. Also Dunedin’s iconic sunrises and sunsets, as well as the surf. Most Photos Taken with an Old Pentax K20D digital camera, using an SMC Pentax-A Zoom70-210 (macro)lens, an old 35mm lens, or a Tamron DI Af 70- 300mm (Macro) lens. Occasionally I use other lenses, an SMC Pentax Dal 18-55mm, a Pentax SMC-FA 28-80mm, or a Sigma zoom 28-80mm (Macro) and Aspherical lens. Photos mainly taken hand-held, and on manual settings